Feb 26
2009

Over 60’s in the United Kingdom are entitled to free bus passes. A good scheme to get cars off the road while helping the elderly. The Isles of Scilly recently received a grant from the UK Government of £51,000 to supply the free bus passes to the Islands’ over sixties.

Only one problem - there are no public buses on the Isles of Scilly, just a few tourist only buses.

The island council was entitled to the money and claimed it and will use it to subsidise boat trips to the mainland, where the bus pass holders can use all of England’s buses for free. Now there’s a council that is looking after its residents.

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Feb 25
2009

ACCOR the world’s largest hotel chain, owner of Formule 1, Ibis, Novotel posted their results today and recorded a 35% fall in profits. Their report identifies the global economic downturn as the major reason.
Business travel is being curtailed and hotel chains are suffering. The good news is that there are some excellent deals now being offered by the hotels to travellers and surveys show that the price of hotel rooms is starting to fall.
BAA the operator of seven major airports in the United Kingdom today revealed that it had made a loss of nearly £2 billion. Half of this was as a result of tax changes but the other half was due to a decline in passenger numbers through its airports which include Heathrow, Gatwick, Stansted and Glasgow.

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